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notes the following: "He wondered why he did not feel some keen agony of fear cutting his sense like a knife. He wondered at this,...

was introduced and defeated; it would have "prohibited slavery in the newly-acquired territories" (Compromise of 1850, 2009). The ...

that "their Southern brethren" supply "material aid" (An appeal to the south, 1865). Their cause was bolstered by bloody acts like...

not only at cases that have been subject to a great deal of debate, such as East Timor and Rwanda, but also at cases where there h...

the objectivity he professed" (Lattimore xiii). As this postmodern revisionist view of Thucydides suggests, his historical accurac...

the coast of Georgia and Florida under Colonel Oliver T. Beards command (Kennington, 2009). Their expedition, and raids, proved su...

that neither the federal government nor the states had any monies to pay for all of these duties. We didnt even have an actual Co...

horrifying story of the evil of greed, set against the backdrop of the Sierra Leone civil war. This paper explores the messages of...

Wilsons War, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells Charlie (Tom Hanks) a parable about seemingly good things that can turn...

Introduction For anyone who has read any of Arthur Millers work, or seen any of his plays, there can be little doubt that he was ...

information is wanted out there has become that much more difficult. But few issues have caused as much outrage as how the...

But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of violence as it ...

of fiction. But in fiction it sometimes finds fuller expression than it does as a headline. This paper explores the concept of vio...

vision of the universe. From the early Reservoir Dogs to the stylish Pulp Fiction, Tarantino has challenged both viewers and the ...

choice. There were very few people left who believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to...

with men; truly powerful women leaders are so rare that we know their names: Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth I in history; more recentl...

hours that typical young people spend with peers, listening to music, watching television and so on," Caulkins and Reuter note. No...

military engaged in a deadly stand-off against the Soviet Union, with both sides poised to destroy the other. The insane doctrine ...

of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...

The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...

leads "officials to play a never ending game of narcotic whack-a-mole" (Suddath). Close to half of the marijuana that is smuggle...

equality to all its citizens. Historians have argued that the U.S. was doomed to fight the Civil War when it wrote a Constitution...

things although it requires approval by both houses to enact any law. The Senate ratifies treaties and must approve any appointmen...

also the ongoing breakdown between Cuba and the United States.3 Twelve hundred American-trained Cuban exiles had visions of viole...

attempt to keep some connection to that life, and to the sane reality of such a life, through the things they carry which remind t...

Whether or not Helen was the cause of all the uproar is really unknown, but what seems certain, according to archaeologist Manfred...

Americans were using torture in hopes of extracting information from suspects about putative terrorist attacks. Suddenly the price...

mistresses to look after them."4 As noted, some blacks did believe this and fought for the South, an unsettling idea at best; but ...

the war as manufactured by federal government propaganda, and significantly altered public perceptions of the war (Miller 211). A...

about battle strategy or about the lives of those that fought the war. On the surface at least it is about the impact the war has...